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A bill that would require background checks on virtually all private gun sales was voted out of the New Mexico Senate Public Affairs Committee on Tuesday.

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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown released her legislative agenda at her swearing in ceremony Monday asking lawmakers to close a series of "loopholes" in the state’s firearm laws.

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A New York gun show will remain in a city-owned venue where it had been operating for more than three decades before local politicians and residents protested hosting the event on the property.

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A firearms expert testified Monday at the federal trial white man accused of gunning down nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church last year.

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The priest who coughed up $3,000 in a charitable raffle so that the AR-15 would not get a chance to run free and “be used to kill kids in schools," has successfully turned the gun into a garden tool.

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This year marks the 23rd anniversary of the Brady bill’s signing into law and with it comes a record number of checks performed in a single year as well as a milestone for blocked sales.

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A columnist in West Virginia is wondering whether the state's concealed carry law is partly to blame for an incident where a 62-year-old white man shot and killed a 15-year-old black boy last week.

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The FBI says a South Carolina serial killer bought his stock of guns and ammunition without a background check.

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A lengthy, controversial and at times confusing $10 million universal background check ballot initiative passed by voters in 2014 is seeing its first use in court.

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A historic gun show that has put on over 100 events in the past three decades in the same venue only to be refused future dates after protests from a gun control group now has an offer from lawmakers one county over.

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The Oregon State Police has closed its case on an clergy member accused of illegally transferring a rifle he spent $3,000 of his church’s discretionary fund winning in a raffle with an aim to destroy it.

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On Tuesday the country's largest gun rights group weighed in via multimedia on Bloomberg-backed voter referendums in two different states.

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